Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish representatives moved that an international commission of experts be convened as a preliminary step in the study of the codification of international laws. The motion was passed...
Percy Hammond ? "One wonders what the motion picture scenarists will do when they endeavor to amplify the incidents of The Werewolf for the purpose of the cinema...
...Providence, R. I., the national women's championship was put in motion. Edith Cummings was off the tee early for her qualifying round. Her most dangerous competitors were Champion Glenna Collett (1922 and 1923) and Champion Marion Hollins (1921) of Providence and Manhattan, respectively. Her most interesting competitor was Mary K. Browne of California, national tennis champion of 1912, 1913, 1914, now an able linkswoman...
...Wells; but too long thinking about it will send anyone of imagination into a mood of depression. What use is it writing books, or poems, or discussing them, when radios bring the human voice and human events themselves into the back parlor of the remote farmhouse, when the motion picture offers more of a thrill to the simple mind than any written romance ever could? What time will anyone have for reading...
...Chicago, 500 poultrymen attended the ninth annual convention of the International Baby Chick Association at Edgewater Beach Hotel, received reports from nine affiliated State Baby Chick Associations, unanimously approved the formation of Accredited Hatcheries, unanimously authorized their officers to eliminate dishonest chick advertising, watched baby chick motion pictures at a baby chick dinner, took bus rides, danced, bathed, presented their retiring President, Prof. Harry R. Lewis, with a handsome watch and Mrs. Lewis with an enormous bouquet, voted to hold their tenth convention at Atlantic City...